Bimoricity in Northern Greenlandic Eskimo

• Main Author: Meador, D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Arizona Linguistics Circle 1992
• Subjects: Hayes; eskimo*; greenlandic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/226597

Multiple strong stresses on heavy syllables within words in Northern Greenlandic Eskimo indicate the absence of word trees in the metrical grid. That final light syllables also selectively receive stress in the absence of a word tree presents a challenge to available mechanisms which attempt to acco...